Quotes About Time

Every four seconds a baby boomer turns fifty

Maybe it's been a gradual thing over the years, the gentle eroding of their love, like seawater over a pebble... She can't even pinpoint the exact moment it changed. But it seems the stronger she gets the weaker their relationship becomes

Who knows how long it's been there? It could date back a few hundred years for all I know.' 'Or to Roman times,' he says, smiling wryly.

that our memories are forever evolving, so we only remember the version of the memory we last recalled rather than the original event.

She wanted to stop time and hold on to all of the memories, because the greatest injustice was that those memories would fade into sepia tones. Her brain wouldn't remember what her heart had seen. Not perfectly. Not in full color. He was gone, and soon time would rob her of what little she had left.

I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September.

Before long, he caught a hold of himself and concluded that nothing ever did happen again; to each was given days and chances which wouldn't come back around. And wasn't it sweet to be where you were and let it remind you of the past for once, despite the upset, instead of always looking on into the mechanics of the days and the trouble ahead, which might never come.

Always it was the same, Furlong thought; always they carried mechanically on without pause, to the next job at hand. What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things? Might their lives be different or much the same – or would they just lose the run of themselves?

What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things.

Maybe the way back will somehow make sense of the coming.

What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things? Might their lives be different or much the same – or would they just lose the run of themselves?

The years don't slow down any as they pass.

Enseguida recuperó el control y llegó a la conclusión de que nunca se volvía a lo que había pasado; a cada uno se le daban días y oportunidades que no volvían a tenerse. ¿No era acaso agradable estar donde estabas y dejar que, por una vez, eso te recordara el pasado, a pesar del malestar, en lugar de estar siempre pendiente de la mecánica de los días y los problemas futuros, que tal vez nunca llegasen?

Kinsella says a few meaningless things along the way then falls into the quiet way he has about him, and time passes without seeming to pass

That's when I did start loving Daniel. Not when I said I did, but some moments later when he replied in kind. It was the last day of January. Winter was through.

To recognize understand and learn how to protect a new ecosystem requires much more time and attention than it does to exploit and destroy one.

Birdwatching will never yield instant gratification. It depends on acceptance and patience...

Facing Accepting Floating Letting time pass

a very real danger that such dribbling will engross an entire lifetime.

Right now, at this moment in time, life was just right. He'd discovered this before. If you don't look forward and you don't look back, you can fix yourself in now and enjoy it.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.